Why Is Every One Trying To Blame Any One Else?

Question

I do not understand why every one is blameing someone or some thing else on all the killings, the fault is Cho's and his alone. so why all this about the left and the right and every one else? I don't see it that way.

Answer 1

People hate personal-accountability. There always has to be someone else to blame.

Did poor Cho get teased? That must give him the right to pick up a gun and start blowing people away. Makes sense to me.

It is the schools fault, apparently the school held secret meetings to brainwash poor Cho. Not his fault he was tricked!

It was the polices fault for not rushing in faster. Poor Cho didn't want to do it, but by golly if those officers don't get here soon I am going to pull this trigger!

It was the gun! It grab Cho and led him through the rampage. Poor Cho was just another victim of the madly rampaging gun. We should put restrictions on these babies, before more go nuts!

Cho was the only one that made the choice to load that gun, aim it and fire it. He made the choice to end numerous lives. He is to blame. We can look around and think, a lot of people may have prevented it, but we can never be certain.

Just Send you thoughts and prayers to the families. Do what you can for them. Always keep the victims in you heart and minds. Hope for the day that Cho is forgotten (one can dream can't I?).

Answer 2

The media's like a fish, 1st bait that swims by their gonna grab and not let go til they are tossed back. Just like with Columbine, they were pointing fingers at video games, The Matrix, and music... they blamed goth sub-culture and Marilyn Manson even though on the kids' website they clearly listed Manson as one of the artists that they hated. They even get these mental analysts to comment on disturbing behavior, well the behavior maybe be similar but everyone is different and these know-it-alls have never met the person. I honestly bet they've never had a one-on-one convo with a mass murderer. Yes, the blame should be pleased on the wrongdoers... and maybe a little on the families who POSSIBLY did not take as much interest in their kids or pay attention to them as much as they should have or even communicate with them. How bout blaming the law who knew 2 years prior in both instances I mentioned that these people were dangerous to others. Sorry it's so long.

Answer 3

Who ever was calling the shots (no pun intended) need to fess up and be accountable. Cho is a cowardly dead killer who was too miserable to see how fortunate he really was. So what if he was teased or taunted, that's part of growing up! His family has obviously worked very hard to send him and his big sister (a Princeton alumni) to good schools that'll get them a good job. The police cannot all be Charley Bronsons and "seek and destroy" without proper orders and clearance. The school officials and security staff admins are the ones that need to be held accountable for the insanely lethargic response time to securing an area of a multiple homicide, implementing a search, and issuing an "all points bullitein" (APB) to every patrol unit to be on the look out for an asian male, etc. No, that obviously did not happen! Somebody made sure to "keep it quiet" to maybe not alarm the student body, keep the day rolling, and secure th e crime scene. If I had the choice, the campus would been shut down that day, everyone sent home, every car leaving is searched, and then proceed with a search and investigation after the FIRST shooting!!

Answer 4

It is essentially cruel to say the fault is his alone.

It is that very cruelty that led to this kid losing control and doing what he did.

People made fun of him. So he turned inward and was all alone. The media calls him a "loner" but reading the testimony of his classmates you can easily see he was ignored, made fun of, condemned for being culturally different.

In a very real sense he was handicapped. If his handicap put him in a wheel chair we'd feel compassion. But since his handicap was only a language barrier we feel it's ok to make fun.

Which is very very wrong.

Image how different things would be right now if just ONE person showed compassion. If he had just ONE friend.

No one would be dead. No one would be injured.

Think about that next time any of you want to poke fun at someone for the way they look or talk or dress or what religion they follow or what they eat.

Answer 5

I've worked in journalism, and I can safely say this finding the scape goat thing is their general modus operandi. People in the media are (virtually) all trying to write and report stories in a different way from the other news outlets. Because they often can't SCOOP the stories because everyone else is also reporting the same thing, they think they have to "find the angle" (this is an everyday phrase for them - it's all you hear working in the news - find the angle, find the angle). See, if they find some angle that no one else has reported, they indeed HAVE scooped others in media, in one way or another. It's all they care about, scooping - that and winning pulitzers and other awards. (Hmph. Most of the stories you read or hear these days OUGHTA be scooped - and not in a journalistic sense!)

The problem is that there rarely is one person or entity to blame - except, as you said, in a case like this -- it was this evil person's fault AND HIS ALONE!! It's not society for not understanding him waa waa. It's not his classmates' fault for picking on him waa waa (trust me -- I was a fat kid and NO ONE understands being picked on, mercilessly and relentlessly - for ten years - better than I do ... and I never hurt anyone!). It wasn't anyone else's fault BUT HIS!! WE DESPERATELY NEED TO STOP ALL THIS B.S. IN OUR COUNTRY - POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, BABYING CHILDREN (AND ADULTS!), PLAYING THE BLAME GAME! Everyone needs to be HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS/HER ACTIONS PERIOD!! ENOUGH!!!!!

Answer 6

Humans naturally work to learn from their experiences. We're wired for it. The blame part, though, is counter productive. But it is good to ask the question 'why' because we would have a hard time getting any smarter unless we asked that question. And ... teachers (I know several) understand the significance for everyone's state of mind of bullying and hurting people. That's also a basic human condition. We have to keep reminding ourselves that being mean creates mean people, both in reference to those who bully and tease and those who get bullied and teased.

Answer 7

Someone has to be blamed, someone has to bear responsibility for what happened. Since the shooter killed himself, someone else must be found, someone must be sued. Find out what kind of shoes he was wearing, and sue the maker of those shoes, they are responsible. Sound ridiculous? Of course it does, but sit back and watch the story unfold, and you'll see just how ridiculous it can get.

Answer 8

the typical liberal mantra...it's not his fault, he was abused as a child, he was mis-understood...

the fault lies in all of us allowing someone else to always deflect the blame away from the perpetrator. "he's a victim of society lashing out...we must respect his pain..."

hogwash, says i...political correctness and the Oprah-ization of Americans has created a fertile ground for looneys like this to run amok.

society's pendulum constantly swings, and we are reaping the results of a generation of liberalism. it is beginning to get to the extreme end in its leftward motion...honest, straight-thinking, hardworking Americans are getting fed up with this kind of garbage, and will not suffer silently much longer.

Answer 9

But that's like saying, it's a psychopath's fault that they're a psychopath. It wasn't Cho's fault that he had mental problems.

Answer 10

Because people have a need to assign blame. They need to feel in control of a situation and to simplify problems no better how complicated.
I think it's best to learn from problems and identify solutions instead of wasting time telling people they are not doing there job.